We Must Share Resources Better

June 12, 2006|Marvin Purser Hollywood

American immigration laws, mostly not now enforced, do have a track record for compassion. But the "handwriting on the wall" screams "standing room only" for this country. This has been in the past a great country with a welcome to a limited number of immigrants.

Intervening variables show, however, that our greed has caught up with us. We control 70 percent of the world's resources. The rest of the world lives on the other 30 percent and whatever we want to share with them. We haven't been sharing enough, so too many "have-nots" want to come here and eat some of the pie, too. That would be OK if we also owned 70 percent of the world's land.

It's timing. It may take another 50 years before we may be divided up on several planets in our solar system doing the pilgrim thing from l620. Had we been more generous since 1620, we would not now need those 50 years. So the ball is now in our court, not to "make do" without enforcing our immigration laws, but to fix the have/have-not mess we have made or reap the consequences of an overpopulated America with quickly depleting natural resources. When the Earth's population spreads to other planets, then plenty of resources will be available once again for all of us. Even then we must share them better than we have in the past.